Informative and engaging articles from across the Race Equality Foundation, as well as external contributions.
Mapping the Margins: Exploring the Intersection of Racism, Physical Health, and Mental Wellbeing in Young People
Mapping the Margins is a NIHR-funded project led by the Race Equality Foundation in partnership with City, University of London, and St George’s, University of London. The project centres the lives of [...]
Making Sense of Poverty Data: Building a Better Picture of Inequality in the UK
Aleks Collingwood, Partnership Manager at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, writes on the challenges of understanding poverty and inequality in the UK with the current limitations in socio-demographic datasets. The blog both identifies the consequences of data gaps, and what is needed to ensure greater access to high-quality inclusive data capable of driving social justice efforts.
Community co-production for more racially inclusive survey data
Nissa Finney, founding member of the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity, explores the importance of community involvement and co-production in creating racially inclusive datasets.
What works for families: SFSC backed by landmark trial evidence
Today marks a significant moment for the Race Equality Foundation and for everyone who has been part of Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities (SFSC). The main findings from [...]
Reflections on a Lunch and Learn webinar with a Local Authority
Last week, the Online Programmes team hosted our first lunch and learn webinar event, titled ‘How to successfully engage families in parenting and relationship support in an inclusive and collaborative way for [...]
At the Margins of Care: Lived Realities of Young South Asian Disabled Women Navigating Inaccessible Healthcare
“It took me five years to get the right diagnosis,” shared one participant, after facing years of medical gaslighting, forced antidepressants and talk therapy instead of the treatment she actually needed. Accessing [...]
Limitations of ONS Life Expectancy Estimates for minoritised ethnic groups in the UK
Dharmi Kapadia, Senior Lecturer at University of Manchester, and Director at the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity, presents research carried out alongside Harry Taylor and Laia Becares (King’s College London) on the limitations of ONS life expectancy estimates published in 2021.
Safer Lives moves into pilot phase
The Safer Lives project has now moved into the pilot phase of the study, marking an important milestone as delivery begins to take shape across our partner areas. Safer Lives is a [...]
Why We Record Ethnicity – And Why It Matters
As the Race Equality Foundation, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity, launch their landmark conference, ‘Advancing Racial Justice: Convention on the State of Data 2026’, our Chief Executive, Jabeer Butt, reflects on the use, and mis-use, of ethnicity data from the 1960s to the present day.
Statement on the Government’s Social Cohesion Strategy
The Race Equality Foundation welcomes the Government’s acknowledgement that racism, antisemitism and anti-Muslim hostility threaten the safety and stability of communities across the United Kingdom. However, the response set out in the Social Cohesion Strategy risks underestimating [...]
Disability, race, and the climate crisis
It is popular to describe the climate and nature crisis as “something that will affect us all”, but this universalising language erases the complexity of the issue. The truth is, the climate [...]
Press Release: New employment rights legislation fails to address racial inequalities driving health crisis among Black and Asian workers, report reveals
New evidence review exposes how structural racism connects poor-quality work, inadequate sick pay and early workforce exit Black and Asian workers experience health of people decades older by their 40s and 50s [...]
How online SFSC courses support the Race Equality Foundation’s anti-racist mission
For 25 years, the SFSC team at the Race Equality Foundation has delivered its evidence-based and inclusive Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities parenting programme. The programme recognises that the communities around families can [...]
Why Stronger Families, Not Stricter Bans, Are the Key to Children’s Wellbeing
As calls grow to ban under-16s from accessing social media, the debate is increasingly shaped by a sense of moral panic, one that risks obscuring the deeper pressures facing children, young people, [...]
Spotlight on… Litter Heroes: SFSC and the power of community engagement
In a society that can feel fractured and divided, many of us find ourselves asking, what does it take to be part of a strong and resilient community? A community may [...]
Black Care Leavers on Support, Care Services and Racial Identity
Turning 18 is a big step for anyone, but for young people in the UK who've been in care, the milestone often means having to face adult life and its responsibilities [...]
Local elections 2026: Making sure all have the opportunity to shape local government
This year on Thursday 7 May 2026, voters across the UK are expected to vote to elect councillors to their local government. Some local elections have been temporarily postponed due to [...]
Getting Safer Lives ready: building trust, teams and momentum
Safer Lives is a three-year research project exploring how the Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities (SFSC) programme can support families and young people affected by offending and serious violence. Funded by the Youth [...]
Statement on Women and Equalities Committee report: Discrimination, harassment and abuse against Muslim women
The Race Equality Foundation welcomes the publication of the Women and Equalities Committee report ‘Discrimination, harassment, and abuse against Muslim women’. The report provides powerful evidence of how Muslim women face a [...]
Warm homes won’t reduce inequality unless equity is built in
The government’s new Warm Homes Plan has been described as the biggest home upgrade programme in British history. At a time when millions of people are living in cold, damp and unsafe [...]
Protecting young people begins with rebuilding community, not banning platforms
This week, debates about young people and social media have flared up again in the UK, with renewed calls to ban access to platforms for under‑16s – following in the footsteps of [...]
The violence of climate inaction: why racial equity must be central
Within days of the new year, Oxfam research revealed that the world’s wealthiest 1 per cent had already exhausted their fair share of carbon emissions for the entire year – emissions that [...]
Anniversary of Race Equity Maturity Index: a Critical Tool in Driving NHS Reform and Race Equity
As we mark the one-year anniversary of the Race Equity Maturity Index (REMI), its relevance to the future of the NHS could not be clearer. Developed by the Race Equality Foundation in [...]
Race Equality Foundation urges Government to centre racial equity in rollout of England’s first Men’s Health Strategy
Historic Men’s Health Strategy acknowledges ethnic disparities, implementation must deliver targeted action to address systemic racism or risk leaving most vulnerable men behind (20 November 2025, London, UK) The Race Equality Foundation [...]
Why 25 years of ‘Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities’ matters to what comes next for parenting support
This 2025, the Race Equality Foundation celebrated 25 years of our flagship, evidence-based parenting programme. In this blog, Ben Lewing reflects on the highlights and insights from the SFSC 2025 Conference.Ben Lewing [...]
